As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 also comes with a Backup Configuration Wizard. Here are two add-on products that offer help.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
Group policy can make your life as an administrator blissful or stressful.
Learn from one expert’s experiences what works with group policies, and what doesn’t.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 06/01/2004
Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2004
DNS is the foundation the house of Active Directory is built upon. If DNS doesn’t work, neither will your Windows network. Here are the 10 most common DNS errors—and how you can avoid them.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/01/2004
In March 2004, Microsoft refined its new management vision with the announcement of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and the first version of its unified operations environment, System Center 2005. Both products are due for release later this summer.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2004
You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.
- By Chris Brooke
- 05/01/2004
MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.
Executive Software's Diskeeper 8.0 can restore speed lost to scattered files.
- By Michael Morgan
- 05/01/2004
How Exchange 2000 is like your two-year-old.
- By Bill Boswell
- 04/27/2004
Completed: Kentucky Education migrates, streamlines NT 4.0 systems to Windows Server 2003.
Software Restriction Policies is a terrific new security tool—if you know what it can’t do, as well as what it can.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2004
Knowing what’s in your Event Logs is a key to knowing what your servers are doing. Here’s how to make sense of them.
- By Derek Melber
- 04/01/2004
You can use a script to compile log info into a file for closer examination.
- By Chris Brooke
- 04/01/2004
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- 04/01/2004
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